(An excerpt from the original work, Real World
Views, Book. 5,
by Professor Dr. Tan Man-Ho entitled "The Canon
of Discovery, the Search for Spiritual Certainty and a Glimpse of
the Real World Views", December 1975 - April 1976 Discourse, Chapter
1, Section E, pp.32~35)

CHAPTER 1

E.
DIMENSIONALITIES AND THE LAWS OF OCTAVE

1
Time, space and matter including radiation and material beings are
fundamentally integrated. Time and space are existential form of matter.
They are all united to form the universal organism. They are self-creative
matters. Space, time and radiation unfold themselves in a trialectically
creative movement. Dimensions of time and space (3 for time and 3 for
space) are sensible at definite levels of the development of sensation.

2In
order to postulate a model of a universe, we must and necessarily should
postulate it with reference to the levels of being and the creature of
reference. We have not arrived at truths yet. We are trapped in our
being. Being of lower man, being of dogs and being of plants have their own
model of the universe. For being of stone, there is no model.

The Space-Time-Eternity Continuum consists of qualitatively separable
dimensionalities, each is like a dimensionality stopinder for the octave
process in the continuum. There are seven such stopinder dimensions in this
continuum, and they are:

Space x (do):

Lines resulting from the movement of points. Fundamentally,
1-dimensional

Space y (re):

Surfaces
resulting from the movement of lines. Fundamentally, 2-dimensional
after absorption of the first

Space z (mi):

Solids
resulting from the movement of surfaces. Fundamentally,
3-dimensional after absorption of the first and the second
dimension.

Interval

Time(mi-fa retardation filling of the dimension
octave)

Time t1 (fa):

The first very obvious time is its 1-dimensional property, that is,
moving in a straight line. Known to being for himself and for
others, that is,
his time line. This is the first dimension of time. This time
being is indistinguishable and therefore appears unique in the
subjective. But
material objects have their own time, own beginnings and own
endings. This leads us to believe that times are distributed for
space or
dimensions of time.

This is the first dimension of point time that could move to form
line time. It is an irreversible line not necessary straight, and
something that can be felt to move with or without an object. It is
the unique subjective without source of its arising. It is time for
a given space or life of space.

Time t2 (so):

This leads to
planar time or line time at various “lengths”. They are distributed
in a time surface. Some begin as soon as the others end. But they
are all on a plane. A given time commences with a given
phenomenon. This phenomenon is subjected to other time axes. A
man, for instance,
is subjected to the growth time, but it is also subjected to other
time axis such as locomotion time of the time lines on a planar
time.

Time t3 (la):

Surfaces of
time or solid time, and could be used to explain reincarnation
phenomenon during and after death for our brained beings. Times on
the many planes; as many time-stopinders with respect to our plane
of times. Time in other planes.

4th Dimension

of Time t4 or

“Eternity” (ti):

Time
continuum’s continuous presence, immortal and eternal. The 7th
dimensionality is the eternality of 3-dimensional time. Neither
beginning nor ending in times besides the concealing fluxes of
specific spaces and times.

Interval

Eternity (ti-do retardation filling of the
dimension octave)

Eternity (do):

The terminating
dimension for the space-time-eternity continuum. The eternity of
the total cosmos or the Great Cosmos. The ABSOLUTE is subjected to
the Space-Time-Eternity Continuum

3
All further stopinderings beyond this dimension-stopinder involve the
blending of spatial phenomenon with the temporal or time phenomenon up to
the eternity dimension. At ‘perfect’ motionlessness or motion of spatial
objects, the time dimension seems to be always present independent of the
source of arising. There is no direct link at between mi and fa at
the mi-fa retardation. A shock called time is necessary to
fill this retardation point. The source of its arising could not be
traced. This shock enables the time dimensionalities to stopinder into the
continuum more smoothly to create the near complete space-time continuum.
So, the active partial octave of dimension stopindering (do-re-mi) is
the first partial octave of space. The second partial octave stopindering (fa-so-la-ti)
is the second partial octave of time. The two could not be reconciled and
seem to be opposites. The last dimension retardation entity to fill the
I-do retardation point is simply eternity.

4
The octave of dimensionality begins from do and ends at ti.
Our reflecting apparatus on space and time is as such that space and time,
although they are both dimension entities, could not be integrated
properly. Besides space and time, eternity, which is also a dimension
stopinder could not be integrated properly into the continuum. By treating
the whole continuum as a dimension octave, the whole concept can be put
together. This is because there are two retardation points in the octave
model where two shocks could be allowed into the continuum ‑ one at mi-fa
and another one at ti-do. The union of space and time, I propose,
should be shocked with time to produce the space-time continuum and
the union of space-time continuum should be shocked with eternity to
produce the space-time-eternity continuum ‑ the complete octave of
dimensions.

5
All spaces and times in the 7th dimensionality is eternity. Such
is being space and times for existences. Space. time and eternity are the
three partial octaves forming the complete picture of the octave dimension.
And space is being-space, time is being-time and eternity is
being-eternity. The Absolute has the complete dimension of ETERNITY because
He is immortal. The Absolute contains all the dimensions in Him.

The dimensionalization process of the Ray of Creation is one of the
inevitable processes of cosmic stopindering into the sevenfolded
being-Universes.

6
People speak of the Earth as a three dimensional material body, ignoring
that it could be a four-dimensional living being or even a seven-dimensional
being perpetually changing. The Earth is able to see its own self through
her organic beings breeding on her skin. She has these beings with
well-equipped reflection apparatus for this purpose. For higher organic
beings such as the humans, five or six or seven dimensionalities could
possibly be pre-conceived (perceived and conceived); for lower
beings, one or two or three or four dimensionalities. The Earth is created
by the cosmic octave, while modern man is created by the organic octave of
Earth.

7
The ray of psyche vision belongs to the fourth dimension of every material
body and for dimensions that lie within a three-dimensional space but at the
same time manage to leave it. These dimensions are inherent in the
three-dimensional body and remains unseparable from it. Mechanical
matter has 3 space dimensions and 1 time dimension, and psymatter has 3
space dimensions, 3 time dimensions and 1 eternity dimension (everpresent)
completing holistically all the 7 dimensions of a Dimension Octave with 2
intervals separating 3 suboctaves, namely, the space octave, the time octave
and the eternity octave, each can be psychological perceived by a human
being as distinct components in the ray of creation of dimensions.

The space sub-continuum
is the house of the space octave housing visible physical bodies subjected
to the mechanical laws of 3 dimensional space and 1 dimensional time.
It is the house of engineering and technology as well.

The time sub-continuum is the house of the time octave housing ghosts,
apparitions, genies, devil,mysticism, lower gods and the whole ranges of
phenoumena with beings of reincarnation powers.

The eternity
sub-continuum is the house of the Great Good, the higher gods, the Absolute,
the Buddhas, the Allah, the immortal beings with ever-presence. It is
the house of Nirvana and the Kingdom of Heaven.

Note

Professor Dr. Tan Man Ho has explained this new
discovery model of Space-Time-Eternity Continuum clearly that the basic laws of
octave applies to the creation and growth of physical and temporal dimensions,
namely spaces and times within a biological being and the universe as being
holistically. This is new physics for our times.